Producer Price Index June 2019 /July 2019
Arab Republic of Egypt, 2019
Identification
DDI-EGY-CAPMAS-PPI-jul.2019
Producer Price Index June 2019 /July 2019
PPI Dec. 2017- Jan. 2018
Producer price index
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Arab Republic of Egypt | EGY |
Price Survey [hh/prc]
In the framework of CAPMAS statistical role in developing data released continuously to be more comprehensive to keep up with the economic changes, CAPMAS started the develop of the monthly bulletin of Producer Price Index in November 2017 for August and September 2017 data, and the developed bulletin included the following:
- Update the base year to be January 2016 the new base period.
- Update weights by using the industrial, agricultural, Services production gross value in public sector /public business and private sectors for years (2013/2014).
- Update the commodity and services basket by adding new commodity, in order to be more comprehensive.
Producer Price Index time series released data of September as a base (2004/2005), and according to the economic changes and the users ‘needs we developed the methodology and released new time series of Price Index (PI) starts with a base period of January 2016 from data of August /September 2017 bulletin.
Bulletin goals :
-Measure the changes in the domestic producer’s prices’ levels of commodities and services.
-One of the economic short term indicators of inflation.
-The national accounts deflator.
-Relying on by various international organizations such as: IMF – CBE for comparisons, Economic oversight and monetary policy evaluation.
-Economic analysis tool for every business men and researchers.
Aggregated data
Number of commodity & services inside the composition of Producer price index is reached 879 commodities .
Version
V1.0
2018-03-05
Scope
Measuring the changes in prices over the time
| Topic |
|---|
| ISIC Ver4. |
Coverage
All production areas on the Republic level without constraint to a certain geographic area
We took into account to represent all production areas on the republic level without constraint to a certain geographic area when structuring the producer price index. Number of sources of collecting prices is 1337 establishment .
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | Ministers Cabinet |
Sampling
Two types of samples’ data are selected as follows:
o Sources Sample
Includes the specific collecting sources like whole trade markets in every governorates of the Republic, As well as, the productive units’ framework, which withdraw as a regular random sample after excluding the productive units, that are less productive value on specific values to be a sample.
o Commodity and Services Sample
By selecting a commodity or a service with a higher productive value and more representable of the main economic activity of the establishment
97.5 %
By Production value in every economic activity
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-01 | 2019-05-30 | Monthly |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-01 | 2019-007-30 | Monthly/ every two months |
- Personal Interview
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | Ministers Cabinet | CAPMAS |
Data collected and supervised by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
This step done after getting acquainted with the food and industrial prices through the regional branches sector
Data processing
Data audit review, followed by electronic checking
Data appraisal
It is in case of doubt we review and re-asked the source
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | Ministers Cabinet | www.capmas.gov.eg | pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
Public Statistics law 35 for year 1960, article 403 1- Macro data confidential and not allowed to be reviewed by any individual or authority 2- Not allowed to use any statistical statement as a basis for linking tax, and not used as an evidence for any judicial or legal action 3- Everybody should provide data that required by CAPMAS representatives with what is truth and in specified timing and to allow CAPMAS deputy to review all the documents to verify the statements 4- Punished by prison with no less than a month, and not exceed 6 months with a fine not less than 100 L.E. and not exceed 500 L.E. for who break the previous provisions of articles or give incorrect data |
All statistics released by CAPMAS has no terms of dealing not included in Law 35 or in the framework of Law 35
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics , Producer Price Index Aug. / Sep. 2017
Disclaimer and copyrights
CAPMAS presents these data with no guarantees and with no included responsibility of results or conclusions based on these results, as well as, it has no responsibility of any executed activity upon these results or data
All rights reserved for Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics 2018
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Information Center in CAPMAS (NIC) | Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | nic@capmas.gov.eg | www.capmas.gov.eg |
Metadata production
DDI-EGY-CAPMAS-PPI-jul.2019
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | CAPMAS | Ministers Cabinet | Collecting, Processing and disseminating data |
2018-03-11
Metadata version
V 1.0